More testing:
I pulled out a restore CD that I made from a previous FreeDOS installation.
On that CD, FreeDOS DIR is able to distinguish codepage and codepage.ext,
and XCOPY is able to copy the ARACHNE tree cleanly.

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That CD was probably not made with CDBurnerXP -- more likely Nero or NTI.
But I certainly can't recall what settings I may have chosen.
Anyone know enough about CD burning for DOS compatibility to make some
recommendations?
--John Hupp
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Hupp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 10:36 AM
Subject: [Freedos-user] Make a CD in Windows that FreeDOS reads cleanly(was:
Fresh XCOPY bugs)
>I *seemed* to be uncovering more problems with XCOPY, like failing to copy
> large chunks of the ARACHNE tree from my restore CD back to the hard
> drive.
> But as I said in a previous post, it now seems to me that XCOPY is not the
> real problem.
>
> I just ran another test in which I created a CD (from Windows, on a CD-RW,
> using CDBurnerXP set to Disc-At-Once) with the Arachne tree, this time
> choosing ISO9660 instead of the default ISO9660/Joliet. I thought that
> might take care of the problem. But under Windows I can see sub-folders
> Arachne\system\codepage and codepage.ext, while FreeDOS DIR only shows two
> sub-directories both named codepage. XCOPY fails to copy
> arachne\system\*.*
> and I think the cause is that it is balking at what it sees at that level.
>
> This is similar to what I reported earlier: Windows sees a folder named
> Queen.sav, but XCOPY copies it to the hard drive as Queen_sa. Windows
> sees
> a folder named F-PROT, but XCOPY copies it to the hard drive as F_PROT,
> and
> none of the proper contents of the F-PROT folder get copied in, but XCOPY
> starts copying in unrelated sub-folders.
>
> Is there another setting I need to create a CD that can be read cleanly by
> FreeDOS?
>
> --John Hupp
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Hupp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Fresh XCOPY bugs
>
>
>> My problems with XCOPY are not as they first seemed.
>>
>> Windows renders the directories of interest on the CD as D:\F-PROT and
>> D:\GAMES\QUEEN.SAV, but FreeDOS (at least the current version) renders
>> them
>> as F_PROT and QUEEN_SA. It is some comfort to find that MS-DOS 6.22 does
>> the same.
>>
>> So file and directory name support seem to be involved, but it's not
>> clear
>> that it is XCOPY that is misbehaving. I see that I can MOVE C:\F_PROT
>> C:\F-PROT, so the hypen is supported there.
>>
>> I want to reinstall those two programs from scratch to see afresh how
>> folders and files are named. It also occurs to me that the CD file
>> system
>> may well be a factor.
>>
>> More on this when I can get to it.
>>
>> --John Hupp
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John Hupp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:54 PM
>> Subject: [Freedos-user] Fresh XCOPY bugs
>>
>>
>>> I'm using XCOPY for a selective restore CD, and for most directories it
>>> works fine, but I have identified a couple cases where it fails due to
>>> the
>>> directory name.
>>>
>>> Where D: is the CD:
>>>
>>> Case 1:
>>> -------
>>> XCOPY /E /V /Y /I D:\GAMES\F-PROT C:\GAMES\F-PROT
>>>
>>> First of all, XCOPY asks "Does F-PROT specify a file name or directory
>>> name
>>> on the target?" With the /I switch, it is not supposed to ask me that
>>> question, and it does not ask for copies of other directories.
>>>
>>> Worse, though it does create C:\GAMES\F-PROT, it does not copy any of
>>> the
>>> contents of the F-PROT directory. Instead, it begins copying into
>>> F-PROT
>>> other GAMES sub-directories: GAMES\ABUSE gets copied to
>>> GAMES\F-PROT\ABUSE,
>>> GAMES\DOOM to GAMES\F-PROT\DOOM, etc.
>>>
>>> Case 2:
>>> -------
>>> XCOPY D:\GAMES\F-PROT C:\GAMES\F-PROT
>>>
>>> Again it asks File or Directory, and that is OK without the /I switch
>>> here.
>>> But after I answer Directory, XCOPY copy responds with:
>>> File not found - F-PROT
>>> 0 file(s) copied
>>>
>>> Case 3:
>>> -------
>>> XCOPY D:\GAMES\QUEEN.SAV C:\GAMES\QUEEN.SAV
>>>
>>> The response is similar to Case 1, except that XCOPY does not ask File
>>> or
>>> Directory. Instead, it copies none of the F-PROT contents but
>>> immediately
>>> begins copying other GAMES sub-directories into GAMES\F-PROT (as in Case
>>> 1).
>>>
>>> Case 4:
>>> -------
>>> XCOPY D:\GAMES\QUEEN.SAV C:\GAMES\QUEEN.SAV
>>>
>>> The response is exactly the same as for Case 2.
>>>
>>> --John Hupp
>>>
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